American Circumcision (2017)
What are we missing?
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 40M
Director : Brendon Marotta
Sinopsis
Circumcision is the most common surgery in America, yet America is the only industrialized country in the world to routinely practice non-religious infant circumcision. Why does America continue to cut the genitals of it's newborn baby males when the rest of the world does not?
Comedia bíblica centrada en el Antiguo Testamento en la que se narrarán acontecimientos de la Torah pero desde el punto de vista de un agnóstico. En plena era prehistórica, Zed y Oh se encargan de realizar la caza para saciar el apetito de su tribu, pero dada su ineptitud y su pereza, son expulsados del poblado. Condenados a vagar por un mundo que todavía está en pañales, Zed y Oh deberán aunar sus fuerzas para afrontar las terribles aventuras que les aguardan.
Ukwaluka is an ancient circumcision ritual for young men still widely practiced by the Xhosa in South Africa. It marks the transition from youth to manhood. A boy who has just undergone circumcision sits in semi-darkness in a simple hut on a hill, far away from the village, as prescribed by the initiation ritual. He is covered from head to toe with a paint made from clay which makes him look as white as a goat. This should be a period of healing, but he is cold and in pain. His grandfather, who is supposed to induct him into his new life, has not yet appeared. According to the belief system of the Xhosa, Ukwaluka also purges the boy from homosexual desires, for which there is no place in the world of adults.
"Cut" is a documentary film by Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon which examines the subject of male circumcision from a religious, scientific and ethical perspective. Using cutting-edge research, in addition to interview footage of rabbis, philosophers, and scientists, Cut challenges the viewer to confront their biases by asking difficult questions about this long-standing practice.
The elder filmmaker makes a strong statement against the practices of circumcision as they performed around Africa and particularly Sudan. The film is typical of the later Gubara films which are determined to take a stand against the tyrannies that are still keeping people down. Gubara has stated that circumcision is "Nothing more than a bad habit".
El detective John Shaft viaja de incógnito a Etiopía, luego a Francia, para destruir una red de tráfico de personas.
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Yugoslavia, 1948. La ruptura de Tito con Stalin marcó el principio de un período de represión. Mesa es un buen hombre, casado y padre de dos niños. En una ocasión se le escapa un comentario crítico sobre política, y su amante, resentida, se lo cuenta al hermano de él, un funcionario del gobierno que hace que lo condenen a trabajos forzados. La mujer de Mesa consigue sacar la familia adelante y al más pequeño de sus hijos le cuenta que papá está haciendo un largo viaje de negocios. (FILMAFFINITY)
James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss) es un antropólogo en apuros. Tendría que haber estado estudiando durante dos años el comportamiento de una tribu desconocida de Nueva Guinea, pero el dinero de la beca lo ha invertido en sus problemáticos hijos. Ahora, sus superiores le exigen que rinda cuentas de sus investigaciones. Lo único que se le ocurre es recurrir a sus hijos para que den vida a una tribu inexistente.
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Ever since he was a child, the seventeen-years-old Edoardo has suffered from a malformation of the foreskin that stops him from masturbating and makes him insecure and ill at ease with girls. Shut up in his sexless microcosm, Edoardo reacts with irritation to the pressures of the outside world, which do nothing but exacerbate his insecurity. Forced against his will to emerge from the shadows in which he has hidden for years, Edoardo will initially try to solve his problem by clumsy stratagems before finding, at last, the courage to face his own fears.
In a small village near Erzincan (Turkey) young Mert is about to get traditionally circumcised, but the family does not have the money to follow up with the circumcision celebration. The family wants to be able to serve lamb meat to the guests of the celebration. Mert's older sister scares him that if they cannot afford a lamb the father will slaughter him instead.
Lyrical tragicomedy. The eyes of the young hero, who will go through the rite of circumcision, shows the life of a Kyrgyz village on a holiday day.
Como cada año, Xolani, obrero solitario, participa junto a otros hombres de su comunidad en un rito iniciático tradicional para jóvenes que están en los últimos años de la adolescencia: serán circuncidados y luego “preparados” para la vida de un hombre de verdad. Kwanda, procedente de una familia acomodada de Johannesburgo y tutelado por Xolani, recibe las burlas de sus compañeros por ser de ciudad y demasiado sensible. Cuando Kwanda descubre que Xolani está enamorado en secreto de otro de los cuidadores la vida de los tres cambiará radicalmente.
Rites and operation of the circumcision of thirty Songhai children on the Niger. Material of this film has been used to make "Les Fils de l'Eau".
Parody focused on the horrors of being uncircumcised.